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EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… Committee was born in Moruleng, Rustenburg district. His teaching career started in the Orange Free State in 1935. … area covering the Potchefstroom and…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… Maivha of the PAC of Azania. My brother Thabo Ngoepe and his wife. All Mourners. Comrades and Friends. Let me start … Cde Esau Mokhethi. I never had the…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… huts. On the 22nd of September 1828, Shaka was killed by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangane and his servant, Mbhopa. A memorial stone was erected…
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… South Africa. Though the apartheid government restricted his movements, Luthuli was granted special permission in 1961 to attend the award ceremony in Oslo,…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… Department of Transport (DoT). During the years prior to his appointment as minister, he had been an activist, a … was investigating him for corruption and…
EventDick King returns home after securing help for Port Natal
… Philip) returned to Port Natal on board the Conch after his heroic rescue operation. King, accompanied by his young after-rider Ndongeni as far as Pondoland,…
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… other books that would prove to be more successful than his debut novel. Hough was found dead in his flat in Melville, Johannesburg on 17 August 2004. His…
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… Ahmed Helmy was born on 18 November 1969 in Banha, Egypt. His career as an actor began when Sherif Arafa noticed Helmy in a children’s programme and was…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… the US. Macala’s chosen technique was pastel on paper, and his work has come to be recognized by this medium. He has used other media from time to time. His…
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… Van der Bijl was born into a very influential family as his father was a produce merchant and a property investor who … inexpensive power to South Africa…
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… only when cricket player and Coach Eddie Barlow recognized his bowling talent that his career took off. Barlow helped place Adams in the Western … province B…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… reflected five issues on which there was deadlock: the death penalty, lockout clauses, education, the appointment of … a 'package deal'. Roelf Meyer of the…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… , fleeing religious persecution in their own country. On his arrival he acquired a piece of land for farming by the … Mountains . He was the first to cross…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a conference … we understand this move? Does it mean that…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a conference … we understand this move? Does it mean that…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
… he also had a tender side. That was mostly reserved for his beloved wife, Lorraine, and his sons, Matthew and Jerome, and their families. But those … to…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… lot of support from Mahatma Gandhi, who had already begun his campaign of passive resistance against racism. E.S. REDDY … Transvaal went to prison. He had…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… he was not obliged to do so. He said in paragraph 3 of his answer that‚ “I wish to co-operate fully with any … Hawks were investigating charges against the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Nkurunziza was stuck in Dar es Salaam tweeting up a storm, his former intelligence chief was busy taking over the … Godefroid Niyombare. “President…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… to issue him a phony passport is lost to history. In his recollections, he simply notes: “I crossed the border … in English by a Black South African, Mhudi…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… it advanced the interests of the capitalist class. In his address in July 2007 to an ANC policy conference, vice … not happy with the President’s policy…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… was serving a three-month prison sentence in Newcastle for his role in the passive resistance campaign, was brought from … CPSA claimed that the strike was a…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… now'. He captured the aspiration for self rule with his popular slogan: "seek ye first the political kingdom, and … Portuguese colonies were extensions of…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… cross examining and contradicting witnesses, found his starring role eclipsed by the deep and detailed evidence … natives were wounded. Six other natives…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… now the Slave Lodge and the caricature on the pediment is his little dig at the hostilities between the French and the … it here because every time the…
Resignation of Cde Zweli Mkhize a Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, 22 August 2013
… A few months ago, Comrade Zweli Mkhize, relinquished his position as Chairperson of the African National Congress … undoubtedly placing a strain on him as an…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
… Zulu Nation during what were to become the last years of his life. KwaDukuza - ironically meaning: 'place of the lost … one of the Kraals that Shaka was…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… antipathy towards Gumede's fraternity with communism, and his neglect in circulating information increased sharply. … figure in South African politics. In…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… on its racial segregation policy and related matters. His attack came at the height of anti-Government rioting in … who are deprived of so many rights…